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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1994, 5:33 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1994, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 21 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 072235 TORSGF MOC009-072300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 533 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARRY COUNTY AT 530 PM CDT WSR-88D RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR MONETT MISSOURI MOVING SOUTHEAST 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN PIERCE CITY...MONETT...AND PULASKIFIELD SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. LEE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-072025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 221 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 220 PM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEVADA MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 40 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWNS OF NEVADA AND ELDORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN 315 AND 330 PM CDT. THIS STORM PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND A WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED AS THEY MOVE INTO VERNON...CEDAR AND BARTON COUNTY. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR POSSIBLE WARnNINGS AND UPDATES. LEE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-072230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 420 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 415 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF JOPLIN NEAR GALESBURG NORTHEAST TO ELDORADO SPRINGS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 35 MPH. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEVADA NEAR WALKER. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO JOPLIN...JERICHO SPRINGS AND CAPLINGER MILLS BY 445 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD EXPECT GUSTY WIND TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL FROM THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR A SMALL PART OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 68 min |
| Jun 7, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 68 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Dallas, Laclede, Webster | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 60 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.